Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
Category: history
That great dust-heap called ‘history’.
Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.